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I Patented December 8, 1903.

r 1 UN TED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK OBIOLS, or WINNEMUOCA, NEVADA.

HI'l'CHING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 746,135, dated December8, 1903.

Application filed June 30, 1903. Serial No- I63fl93. (No model.) 7

To all whom it mag/concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK OBIOLS, a citilently the animal may move aboutor agitate the hitching-strap.

' The invention consists in certain novel features of construction ashereinafter shown and described, and specified in the claims.

In the drawings illustrativeof the invention, in which correspondingparts are denoted by like designating characters, Figure 1 is a sideelevation, and Fig. 2 is a plan'view of the device applied to ahitching-post. Figs. 3 and 4 illustrate modified means for connectingthe device to structures other than hitch- I ing-posts.

The device may be employed for many purposes, but, as before stated,-ismore particularly applicable to hitching horses; but I do not wish to belimited in the use of the device to any specific purpose or inconnection with any specific structure, but reserve the right to its usefor whatever purpose it may be adapted.

The improved device consists of a base member 10, preferably circular orin disk form and having a cam lug-or surface 11 extending from its faceat one side and with a lip 12 extending over the cam-lug and forming asocket, as shown.

acam member 14, operating in the cam-socket by its operative edge, asshown. The opposing edges of the parts 11 14 may be serrated orotherwise roughened, or the cam member Pivoted at 13 to the oppositeside of the base from the cam-lug is that direction, but which may beeasily released by a strain exerted in the opposite direction.

It will be noted that the base member extends on all sides beyond thecam member 14 and that the cam-memberlikewiseextends beyond the lip 12on the side toward which the strain is exerted and has its outer face'rounded at the corner 16 to cause the strap when moved upwardly orlaterally to slip freely thereover and engage the straight edge 12 ofthe rigid lip 12to prevent such a movement from causing said strapto-obtain any purchase or exert any backward strain on the cam member,which strain would be liable to disengage the cam member and release thestrap. Thus no. matter how violently the animal may toss his head aboutand throw the strap about no position in which it can be placed willexert a backward strain upon the cam member and release it, butsuchstrain will be thrown on the rigid lip 12.

The plate 10 may be'fastened in any suitable manner to any requiredsupport,-such as a hitching-post 17, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, to amangeror other feeding-place, asindicated at 18 in Fig. 3, or to a wall19, as in,- dicated in Fig. 4. A holding-bolt 20 may be formedintegralwith the plate, as in Fig 1,

2, '3, or the plate maybe fastened directly to the support by holdingbolts or screws 22, as in Fig. 4, or any other suitable fastening meansmay be employed,v

The parts may be of any su1table material 7.

or of any suitable size and adapted to hold any size of'strap or rope.

If desired, the relative locations of the parts 12 and 14 could bereversed, so that the memher 15 would be inserted from the oppositeside; but it is obvious that this would not be a departure from thespirit of the invention.

The device may be employed to advantage upon a seat or other part of awagon to hold the reins.

I. Having thus described my invention, what I claim is A hitching devicecomprising a. base-plate having a cam-socket provided with anoverhanging lip,-a cam pivotally mounted on said base-plate in positionto engage the cam-wall of said socket, said cam projecting beyond my ownI have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

FRANK OBIOLS.

said lip when in operative position and having the outer face of saidprojected portion rounded to provide for the free movement thereover ofa strap held by the cam when upward or lateral strain is exerted on saidWitnesses:

S. G. LAMB,

strap.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as l J. D. VARGAS.

